Calls from France to the Arab countries: avoid boycott campaigns

France has called on Arab countries to avoid campaigns to boycott its products.

In a statement made by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was stated that boycott calls by “a radical minority” were “unfounded”.

In some supermarkets in Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar, French hair care and beauty products were removed from the shelves after French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right to display cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Kuwait Union of Consumer Cooperation Associations called for a boycott of French products.

The Association announced that it had made this decision due to “repeating insults to the Prophet Muhammad.”

A hashtag about the boycott of the French supermarket chain Carrefour in Saudi Arabia became the second most popular hashtag on social media on Sunday.

Some politicians in Egypt also launched a boycott campaign against French products.

Similar protests are taking place in Libya, Syria and the Gaza Strip.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on his Twitter account on Sunday, emphasizing that they will defend French values ​​to the end: “We will never obey. We respect all differences in the spirit of peace. We do not accept hate speech and defend an argument. reasonable. We will always be on the side of human dignity and universal values. “

In France, a teacher named Samuel Paty was beheaded after displaying cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom on October 16.

In a post-assassination statement, Macron said: “Samuel Paty was killed because the Republic assimilated, the Islamists wanted our future. They know that as long as there are silent heroes like him, they will never have our future. France will not give up cartoons.”

In Friday’s speech by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in France, the Prophet Muhammad caricatures that for criticizing Macro the facades of buildings reflected “Mentally they point, there is a need for treatment”, after, according to France, he had called the Saturday to the ambassador in Turkey.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan also accused Macron of “attacking Islam” on Sunday.

In addition to Iraq, Morocco and Jordan, there was a backlash against Macron from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and the Hizbulla political and military movement in Lebanon.

After a Danish magazine published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, Danish products were also boycotted in some Muslim countries.